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Articles from Vol. 10, No. 2, June

Approaches to Researching Women's Reproductive Health

Since the late 1980s, comprehensive studies from Egypt, India, Nigeria, and Turkey have revealed the widespread prevalence of reproductive tract and other gynecologic disorders. These findings have prompted researchers to expand this work to explore...

All things being equal, women have an advantage over men in healthy life expectancy. In industrialized countries healthy life expectancy for women is about two years longer than for men. Researchers have cited both biological and environmental reasons...

Despite accounting for only approximately 1 percent of circulating immune system cells, dendritic cells are among the first such cells that encounter HIV following sexual or mother-to-child transmission of the virus by virtue of their position within...

Sexual activity and its consequences, particularly HIV risk, have been a major focus of research on unmarried adolescents in Vietnam. A recently published study, however, suggests that other challenges may be more pressing for young people in that...

Mortality and fertility declines inevitably lead to increases in the proportions of the elderly within populations. Demographers expect population aging to become a widespread phenomenon in all world regions in the next few decades. This trend has...

In 1990, the Population Council's Judith Bruce, now director of the Gender, Family, and Development program, developed a framework for studying quality of care in family planning service delivery and listed its key dimensions. This tool provided a...